Nobody likes a path full of weeds, but have you seen the price of weed killer these days? It's no wonder the green prickly stuff is sprouting up when it costs people so much to get rid of the blighters.
Bottles or sachets of weed killing solution can easily run into double figures, especially if you've got a large area to clear.
That's probably why one woman's tip for making it on the cheap proved so popular last year that it's still being shared.
With a drive full of weeds, I decided to make the solution myself to see how it fared.
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All you need is a litre of white vinegar, three large spoons of salt, three large spoons of washing-up liquid and either a spray bottle or a watering can.
The woman who first shared the recipe and declared it 'the best weed killer ever' said it cost her £1.18, for two 500ml bottles of vinegar from Home Bargains. She already had the other items.
But, thanks to Tesco's 568ml bottles for just 29p each, I made it even cheaper. With two of those, and an extra 10p added as a rough estimate for the washing up liquid and salt, which I too already had in, it came to just 68p.
Of course it's no good saving money on something if it doesn't work, so it was time to put it to the test.
I had a watering can rather than a spray bottle, so it wasn't the most efficient way to tackle the weeds, as a fair bit went on the area around them rather than tackling them direct - and left a fair bit of salt residue behind until it rained.
But within just a few hours of the stuff being trickled over them, they were visibly dead.
Even my cynical husband was impressed. "That's better than the weed killer we used last time," he declared.
And a damn sight cheaper too.
Surely being so savvy means it's his turn to pull out the dead ones. I think I've earned that.
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